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# Advanced Polybar Module Configuration (MX-Linux/Debian and Arch Distros)
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Polybar configuration with patched and improved modules for Awesome, i3 and XFCE4. Base design fits to **MX-Linux (Debian Stable) and Arch Distros**.
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## Inherited and extended sources
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This project configures and extend github polybar sources from
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* **polybar-themes (adi1090x)** - forest theme - https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes
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* **polywins (alnj)** - https://github.com/alnj/polywins
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* **polybar-mpris (0jdxt)** - https://github.com/0jdxt/polybar-mpris
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* **polybar-scripts** - https://github.com/polybar/polybar-scripts
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* **dotfiles by Derek Taylor (DT)** - https://gitlab.com/dwt1/dotfiles
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* **My personal scripts** and modifications for several modules
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*NOTE:* If you love this polybar - please add **git stars to listed projects!**
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## Screenshots
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##### Polybar Forest/Default in AwesomeWM
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##### Polybar Forest/Gruvbox FXCE4 with MPRIS - Spotify, Netflix, Youtube, text cycling and improved controls Example
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##### Polybar Forest/Default i3 Configured Modules Example
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## MAIN GOALs
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The main goal of this project is complete and enhanced configuration of polybar modules for MX-Linux and Arch systems.
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Inherited actual theme is **Forest** with few styles colormaps from:
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https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes/tree/master/simple/forest
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Supported all modules already included in the polybar-themes project.
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### Added Enhanced Modules
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* **Weather Module** for Open Weather site with Nerd Fonts.
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* **MPRIS Module** - with scrolling and activity icon - support all players Spotify, MPD, Youtube, Netflix,...
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* **Polywins Module** - Opened application administration support
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* **Network Improved Modules**
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* **AMD Ryzen and new AMD GPUs Temperatures Modules**
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* **Workspaces Enhanced Module**
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* **Update Module** - for MX-Linux and Arch Distros
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* **System Module** - for MX-Linux and Arch Distros changed
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## Dependencies
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Install following programs on your system before you use these themes.
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* **Polybar** : Ofcourse, the bar itself
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* **Rofi** : App launcher, network, power and style menus
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* **networkmanager_dmenu** : network modules (debian only)
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* **mpris** and **playerctl** : Spotify and other music services
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* **zscroll** : Text cycling library for music player (zscroll-git from AUR or compile it directly from git for Debian)
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* **wmctrl** : polywins service library
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### Fonts
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Here's a list of all fonts used by these themes.
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**`Text Fonts`**
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- Iosevka Nerd Font
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- Noto Sans
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- Droid Sans
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- Terminus
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**`Icon Fonts`**
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- Iosevka Nerd Font
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- Icomoon Feather
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I strictly recommend to call `setup.sh` script from `polybar-themes` git repo, because it is installed all necessary fonts from here:
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https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes/tree/master/fonts
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### Installation
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Follow the steps below to install polybar on your system.
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- First, Clone this repository -
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```
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$ git clone https://github.com/raven2cz/polybar-config
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```
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- Change to cloned directory and make setup.sh executable -
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```
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$ cd polybar-config
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$ chmod +x scripts/*
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```
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- Backup your polybar settings (if you already have).
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- Copy dir polybar dir `.` to your `~/.config/polybar` user directory.
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- **That's it, This polybar is now installed on your system.**
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### Polybar Configuration
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- Set correct network interfaces
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```
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In user_modules.ini:
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module/networkspeedup
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module/networkspeeddown
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module/wired-network
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# set correct interface parameter
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interface = enp38s0
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```
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- Set correct sensors for your CPU and GPUs
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```
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In modules.ini:
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temp-gpu and temp-cpu modules
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call:
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for i in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/temp*_input; do echo "$(<$(dirname $i)/name): $(cat ${i%_*}_label 2>/dev/null || echo $(basename ${i%_*})) $(readlink -f $i)"; done
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and copy required sensors values to the fields.
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```
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- Set your free/paid OpenWeather API ID and City in script `weather.py`.
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**NOTE:** For **AwesomeWM** only, set `modules.ini` module workspaces: `pin-workspaces = false` and `config.ini`: `override-redirect = true`
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In addition, there is necessary to make trick - create empty wibar with same length and insert it to same position with polybar.
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- **That's it, the polybar is fully configured now.**
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### Launch the bar
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To launch the bar with the selected theme, Just...
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- Open the terminal and enter the following command -
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```
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$ bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh
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```
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- You can add the same command to your WM *autostart file* to launch the bar on login. For example, to launch the bar at startup on openbox, add following lines in **`$HOME/.config/openbox/autostart`** This polybar is optimized for fce4, i3 and partially for awesomewm. But it can be used for many others VMs with little modifications.
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```
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## Launch Polybar
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bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh
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```
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### Change Colormap of Themes
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`Right-Click` to launcher button (left side first button with rofi) starts the **selector of color maps**. Select Look and Feel.
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